Call to Worship 2

Welcome

Good morning and welcome to Living Water Church! We’re glad that you are able to gather with us today to worship our God.

If you are new or visiting LWC this morning, we want to welcome you as our guest! We are glad you are here, and we would love to meet you and get you connected to the life and ministry here at Living Water Church. So if you would, please meet with one of our leaders at the Info Desk in the foyer after our service.

To those who call LWC their home church, I would remind you that one way that we worship is through giving. If you have come prepared to give this morning, you can do so in one of three ways

You can do so online or through our app

You can give in person

Or you can give by mail

Announcements

Youth Group Event at Sky Zone this Friday, August 27th from 6:30-8. You can sign your youth up online.

If you are a CG leader or host, there is going to be a lunch and training class coming up in a week from today, on August 29th following the service. If you are going to it, please sign up through our app or website.

The Women’s Fall Study will begin in September. They will be studying the Gospel of Luke and there are three times available if you wish to join. Those times will be on Tuesday evenings, Wednesday mornings, and then an online option on Saturday mornings

Baby Dedication

That’s all we have for announcements.

This morning we get to dedicate a few babies in our church. So if the Zalks and Sarah would come up to the platform we will dedicate Henry Zalk and Lydia Trosper.

Deuteronomy 6:5–7 ESV

5 You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might. 6 And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. 7 You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.

Matthew 16:17 ESV

17 And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

Prepare our hearts for worship

Let’s take a moment to still our hearts to prepare for worship

Call to worship

This morning’s call to worship comes from John 15

John 15:4–5 ESV

4 Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in me. 5 I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.

John 15:8 ESV

8 By this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples.

Let’s recount the truths that unite us as they are summarized in the Apostle’s Creed.

Apostle’s Creed

I believe in God the Father Almighty

His only Son our Lord

Who was conceived by the Holy Spirit

Born of the Virgin Mary

Suffered under Pontius Pilate

Was crucified, dead, and buried,

The third day he arose again from the dead

He ascended into Heaven

And is seated on the right hand of God the Father Almighty

From there He shall come to judge

The living and the dead

I believe in the Holy Spirit

The holy universal church

The communion of saints

The forgiveness of sins

The resurrection of the body

And the life everlasting

Amen